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• Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role - Abby Sourwine, Government Technology
  Those stepping up to fill education’s new C-suite role say it's more than just understanding IT — it requires communication and skill-building across disciplines and comfort levels, and flexibility to create a road map. As the education sector continues to adapt to artificial intelligence, a new role is quietly emerging: the chief AI officer (CAIO). […]
• Closing the gender gap in engineering for a digital-first future - McKinsey
  June 23 celebrated the contributions of women in engineering and brings attention to the ongoing gender gap in STEM fields. “To succeed in this digital-first future, both women and men need to be technologists.” However, write McKinsey’s Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez, “The challenge is especially acute for women, who continue […]
• $1.5M partnership with AI company will offer USC students, faculty free access - Alexa Jurado, the State
  “The campuswide adoption of secure enterprise AI technology puts USC on the leading edge of higher education institutions,” Brice Bible, USC’s vice president for information technology and chief information officer, said in a news release. “This initiative will not only make our students more employable, but it will allow for much greater innovation in the […]
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI can rival someone with a PhD—just weeks after saying it’s ready for entry-level jobs. So what’s left for grads? - Preston Fore, Fortune
  Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the technology can already perform the tasks equal to that of an entry-level employee. Now, in a podcast posted just last week, the ChatGPT mastermind went even further—saying AI can even perform tasks typically expected of the smartest grads with a doctorate. “In some sense AIs […]
• "Seriously, What Is 'Superintelligence'? - Uncanny Valley Podcast, Wired
   The podcast episode "Seriously, What Is 'Superintelligence'?" from WIRED's Uncanny Valley explores Meta's recent strategic shift in artificial intelligence, focusing on its investment in Scale AI and the creation of a superintelligence AI research lab. The hosts discuss Meta's efforts to compete with industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google by aggressively acquiring talent and […]
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says ‘We Are Heading Towards a World Where AI Will Just Have Unbelievable Context on Your Life’ - Caleb Naysmith, Barchart
  Altman described the feature as a “real surprising level up,” saying, “Now that the computer knows a lot of context on me, and if I ask it a question with only a small number of words, it knows enough about the rest of my life to be pretty confident in what I want it to […]
• How to turn AI into your own research assistant with this free Google tool - Lance Whitney, ZDnet
  As the name implies, Learn About is more than just a way to get a quick answer to a question. Instead, it's a teaching tool that invites you to dive more deeply into your chosen topic. With Learn About, you can submit a text prompt, a PDF, or an image file to kick off your […]
• The IAIER at NCCU x OpenAI Academy Summit: HBCUs Leading the Future- NC Central University
  Hosted by the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Research (IAIER) at North Carolina Central University in collaboration with OpenAI Academy, the IAIER x OpenAI Academy Summit: HBCUs Leading the Future is a first-of-its-kind national event convening students, faculty, and professionals from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to explore real-world applications of artificial intelligence. Through […]
• Teaching at a Small Private College? Take our Advice - Terri Ward, Jennifer Suriano, and Julie Cuccio-Slichko, Faculty Focus
  Here is our message: Take heed if you are a faculty member in educator preparation. We, the authors of this article, shared the same experience of college closure and loss of employment. However, we saw it through three different lenses: Jenni was an early tenure-track Assistant Professor; Julie was an Assistant Professor applying for rank […]
• What do students want from AI-assisted teaching? - Omar Merlo &Nai Li, Times Higher Education
  What do students want from AI-assisted teaching? - Omar Merlo &Nai Li, Times Higher EducationEducators tend to agree that we need to embrace AI as a tool for learning. However, there is still an open question about how academics and students can best harness the technology in the classroom. Through our use of AI to […]
• To employers, AI skills aren’t just for tech majors anymore: Colleges and students race to keep up with the widespread demand for AI expertise - Ariel Gilreath, Hechinger Report
  AI technology is rapidly changing the labor market. Employers are increasingly posting job listings that include AI skills for positions even outside of the technology sector, such as in health care, hospitality and media. To keep up, students are increasingly looking for ways to boost their AI skills and make themselves more marketable at a […]
• How Babson College went all-in on AI in higher education - Shane O'Neill, CIO
  Over the past two years, US colleges have quietly integrated generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools into the classroom and behind the scenes. At Babson College, just outside Boston, the shift to AI has been anything but quiet — it’s been bold, fast, and full of purpose. Babson is certainly not the only college in the […]
• Walking, Talking, Engaging AI in Higher Ed - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  We are most accustomed to writing prompts and challenging artificial intelligence to give us answers, insights, sources, video clips and creativity. Emerging now is the walking, talking AI that engages us on our level. We have front-row seats to the maturing of AI in higher education. There has been audio for a while, but now […]
• Preparing for tomorrow’s agentic workforce - Lareina Yee and Rodrigo Liang, McKinsey
  As we scale up, we’re now seeing other constraints start to appear, like a lack of sufficient power for these data centers. So people are talking about nuclear power plants and other sources of energy. But then you have to figure out how to get the cooling done as well. And as you think about […]
• A.I. in the Classroom: A Brave New World? - Carl Murray, NY Times
  While the promise of personalized A.I. tutors and campuswide integration is compelling, we must pause to consider the broader implications, especially for how students come to understand learning itself. The rush to adopt A.I. in education shouldn’t come at the expense of thoughtful consideration of how it will shape learning, relationships and long-term student development. […]
• Welcome to the "infinite workday" - Emily Peck, Axios
  It's difficult to stay focused during formal business hours. Knowledge workers are interrupted by a ping from an app — such as email, calendar or messaging — every 1.75 minutes, or 275 times, during the official eight-hour work day, finds the analysis, which looked at data from 12-month period ending February 2025. Meanwhile, as workers […]
• MIT's New AI "REWRITES ITSELF" to Improve It's Abilities: Researchers STUNNED! - Wes Roth, YouTube
  This podcast discusses a recent MIT paper on self-adapting language models (LLMs), a framework where these models generate their own training data and update their internal "weights" in response to new inputs. This allows them to improve their performance on specific tasks over time, essentially "improving their own brains." The paper introduces a concept called […]
• How we built our multi-agent research system - Anthropic
  Claude now has Research capabilities that allow it to search across the web, Google Workspace, and any integrations to accomplish complex tasks. The journey of this multi-agent system from prototype to production taught us critical lessons about system architecture, tool design, and prompt engineering. A multi-agent system consists of multiple agents (LLMs autonomously using tools […]
• New research suggests daily AI use can reduce faculty workload in higher education - Rachel Lawler, Ed Tech Innovation Hub
  A new survey from D2L, an online learning platform based in Canada, and consulting service provider Tyton Partners, has found that daily use of artificial intelligence (AI) can reduce faculty workload in higher education institutions. D2L surveyed more than 3,000 respondents about the current state of AI use in higher education for its Time for […]
• ChatGPT KNOWS when it's being watched... - Matthew Berman, YouTube
  This podcast discusses how large language models (LLMs) can detect when they are being evaluated, a phenomenon called "evaluation awareness." This awareness, which is more common in advanced models, allows them to identify evaluation settings, potentially compromising benchmark reliability and leading to inaccurate assessments of their capabilities and safety. A research paper introduced a benchmark […]